To pass and grant signed the authorization in march of 1872 for the First National park, which was yellowstone. Here is a rendition of morans water color of the canyon of the yellowstone. Here is one of mammoth hot springs. Then we have jacksons photograph of the lower fall. This is the 1871 print of his, one of his pictures on glass plates, keep in mind that they had a glass plate. They could not enlarge it. The plate was as large as the picture. They had to coat it and then expose it and then fix it and keep track of it. They were on mules and horses. The very essence its a miracle we have any of them. You have to understand a lot of , the park was driven by how could i make money. We understand and we know for a fact that part of it was that the railroads were making their move west and in order to fund and to make a business out of it, they had to have places they wanted to go. And so the Northern Pacific , railroad, which was going to be on through montana, which would have been through bozeman and on out to the pacific coast, they wanted to advertise and capitalize on the yellowstone park. And so it was to their best interest to make it as alluring as possible. And so they began to fund either blatantly or behind the scenes , these hotels that were being built. They were funding these different corporations who were building these things to entice the public to have somewhere to go and stay while they traveled through the park. Along this time, there was a man f. J. Haines working for the railroad as their photographer and he began to see the ability of the park, its scenic value, both in scenery and as a business. And in 1883 he wrote to the department of the interior and he had himself named as the parks official photographer and started coming in each summer to take photographs of the park and sell them as part of his business. But in 1887, f. J. Was one of the first people to go into the park in the winter time. And he took 42 glass plate pictures, but the photographs that he brought out were amazing. These were, this is a picture of the group that was going by the cliffs. Heres a picture of the lower part of the basin. The winter of 1887. What is interesting is that this shows, this is the upper geyser this shows people on skis moving through the snow. One of the best pictures i like is here, this is the lower falls. If you look real close, you can see the ice dome that builds in front of the falls as the spray comes down. Along with haines, as he was given the photographic concession, the concession contained, he made a guide book and he sold his first guide book , it came out in 1896. This is his 1896 guide book. You can see where he used his photographs. A lot of written word and different images. He had a map that was in the back here and it had some advertisement in the back which is the way they did things. They had the advertisement in the back of the book. He had an 1896 guide book. This is 1897, this is 1907, 1916, 1924. This is 1935. This is 1936. You can see where they had they made a change in the cover. And this was their last, 1966. As you look through this one, you can see how the maps changed. There was more maps. There was more concise pictures. He had flowers, he had birds. It was a complete guide book. These were meant to be kept. We have a complete set from 1896 1966. The company was sold by his daughterinlaw in 1969. Along with the guide books, the park was also used by the different railroad companies. There was the Northern Pacific. There was the union pacific. There was the burlington northern. These railroads came up to the edges of the park at different times. The first one was the Northern Pacific. And they started using the images of the park to advertise coming on their railroad, to come to the park. You got picked up by coaches and taken to the hotel. And from the hotel, you would take a stagecoach ride around the park. These were fiveevan day tours. 5 to seven day tours. And cost a whopping 55. The first ones that came out were these. This was one of the earlier ones. This is 1913. The ones that were early, they were generic and didnt have a lot of photographic or visual appeal. It was just a brochure that had their time tables. This is the garden station, this is the northern entrance. This shows how the Northern Pacific would view. It would give you some idea of what you were going to see. Cone. Is fishing theres the divide. And they would give you what their itinerary was, what you would see in the park. They had very artistic renderings. Heres old faithful and almost you can see the brush strokes , are very apparent. This is the burlington route and pacific. Northern and they had standard tours. Usually what you were going to , see, the lodges and some of the points of interest. This one here is for children. They took the theme. They had coloring books. They were looking at all parts of the family. One of the interesting things is wethese travel posters see during this same time, it was the rise of middle class and the rise of disposable income. President taft puts an article in the New York Times that says you should have two, three weeks off to rejuvinate yourself. And so you see the idea of some of this stuff has broader meaning. Has sociological meaning on why this is going on. It helps us understand who we are. Are cities tour staff recently traveled to provo, utah to learn about its rich history. Learn more about provo and other cspan. Org. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. A panel of historians talk about Race Relations in the postcivil war memphis and it looks at the lives of three in the city both before and after the riot that resulted in the massacre of africanamericans. They discussed the testimonies of women who were assaulted and the role of several colored troops near the city. This event was hosted by the university of memphis and is a little bit over two hours. First, let
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